On Saturday, August 30, 2014 8:33:21 AM UTC-7, TheDiveO wrote: > > On Monday, August 25, 2014 3:59:29 AM UTC+2, Eric Shulman wrote: >> >> However, once TW5 is out of beta, my primary focus will shift to creating >> and publishing a TW5 version of TiddlyTools and developing new plugins for >> TiddlyWiki5, as well as writing TiddlyWiki5 documentation (perhaps an >> actual book?!?) and providing user support for the "migration path" from >> TiddlyWiki Classic to TiddlyWiki5 (i.e., guidelines and scripts for >> converting existing documents). >> > > Eric, please write an actual book (as in actual *e*book) on TW5 ... I > will immediately buy and gladly pay for it! An O'Reilly "TW5 in a Nutshell" > would be great. With insight for both beginners and hackers/customizers. >
I would LOVE to write a book about TiddlyWiki. The only catch... is that it takes a lot of time and undivided attention. Unfortunately, because I am a self-employed software consultant, I have to spend a great deal of day-to-day effort on finding and earning income from various client projects, and TiddlyWiki inevitably get pushed to a lower priority until the monthly bills are paid. Of course, if there was a enough income from TiddlyWiki to cover my monthly living expenses without other client work, I would gladly spend all of my time exclusively on writing the TiddlyWiki book. Jeremy and I have been discussing how to make this happen, and we've been talking about creating a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise enough funds for me to work full-time on the book. To do this, we need to decide on an outline of topics the book should address. Once we have a proposed "Table Of Contents", I can then estimate how long it is likely to take to write that material. That will, in turn, help determine the initial funding goal and any "stretch" goals needed to complete the work. We will also need to structure the Kickstarter campaign to provide various "rewards" for different levels of funding from contributors, so your ideas for campaign rewards that you think people would like are also important. Your thoughts? -e -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
